Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears to be like on throughout a listening to within the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump on the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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A Georgia appeals court on Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from overseeing the prison election interference prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump and different defendants.
But the Court of Appeals let stand the indictment in opposition to the defendants, who’re accused of crimes associated to their efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in Georgia’s 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
The ruling overturns a Fulton County trial court docket choose’s ruling that allowed Willis to stay on the case regardless of arguments by Trump’s attorneys that she needs to be disqualified because of her romantic relationship with the highest prosecutor whom she had picked.
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